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<h1 align='center' style='text-align:center'>User Assistance Plan
for Eclipse 3.6</h1> 

<p>By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM. Last revised 09/21/2009 </p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.6 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the planned new features
together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla
entry which contains more information. </p>

<h3>Milestone 1 08/07/2009</h3>
<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=107623">
[Webapp] Help system webapp: Provide footer area like banner area (persistent, across browser window, optional)
</a><br/>
Allow a footer to be added to the help webapp by setting a customization property. 
This has been requested to allow copyright information to be displayed at the bottom
of the help frames.
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=38052">
[Help] Add alphabetical ordering attribute to TOC DTD
</a><br/>
This allows anchor nodes in the table of contents to have their children sorted alphabetically.
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<h3>Milestone 2 09/18/2009</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=190467">
Add child links to topics with content at runtime.</a>
<br/>Allows elements in the table of content which are anchors to contain
hyperlinks to each of their children.
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<h3>Milestone 3 10/30/2009</h3>

These 
enhancements will allow additional UI elements to be added to the help
webapp.
<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=286177">
[Webapp] Allow additional views to be added to the help webapp</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=286182">
[Webapp] Allow additional frame(s) below content frame</a>
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<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287712">
[Webapp] Allow additional buttons to be added to the help webapp.</a> 
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The next three enhancements will make it easier to create UA content.
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<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278290">
[Intro] Make the RSS news reader reusable
</a><br/>
<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281145">
Mechanism for publishing internal resources of cheatsheet plugin 
</a><br/>
<a href ="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280357">
Additional help / debugging for CSH issues
</a><br/>
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<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280459">
Help system - Remote UA - Network error handling 
</a>
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<h3>Milestone 4 12/11/2009</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227198">
[Help] Cannot change font size in help view (Windows or Macintosh)
</a></p>

<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280354">
Remote UA: What to do when local and remote plug-ins are both present
</a><br/>

<h3>Milestone 5 01/29/2010</h3>
<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281146">
[Help][Index] See references added to the keyword index
</a><br/>
The keyword index in Eclipse is missing a standard feature of an index, the
ability to display synonyms as links to another keyword.
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<h3>Milestone 6 (API Freeze) 03/12/2010</h3>
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